Louise Mensch was duped by a hoax about Donald Trump

Louise Mensch (Credit: Getty/Ben Pruchnie)

For months, so-called journalists Louise Mensch and Claude Taylor have tweeted about President Donald Trump and his alleged connections to the Russian government far beyond the point of obsession. As a report by the Guardian confirms, the pair’s breathless reporting on some of the Trump — “Trump’s inactive fashion model agency is under investigation by New York authorities for possible sex trafficking” — is, perhaps unsurprisingly, false.

Taylor’s source, who went by the name, “Caitlin,” claimed to work for New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, and sent the information to Taylor because of his and Mensch’s “dissemination of fake news,” the Guardian reported. Mensch currently has a story she published pinned to the top of her Twitter profile that Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, is receiving security clearances and being prepared to take over as president.

“Taylor asked no questions to verify my identity, did no vetting whatsoever, sought no confirmation from a second source – but instead asked leading questions to support his various theories, asking me to verify them,” the source explained to the Guardian in an email.

“Caitlin’s” real identity was verified by the Guardian and confirmed that she also does not work for Schneiderman. Taylor was a former staffer in the Bill Clinton White House, and Mensch is a former member of parliament in the U.K, according to the Guardian.

Ironically, Taylor’s Twitter handle is